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Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This probing yet accessible book examines ""global governance"" or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and transnational corporations identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems. The chasm between the magnitude of a growing number of

By exploring the anti-corruption strategies in six countries, this book is the first detailed, cross-national analysis on techniques to address corruption. It highlights the importance of understanding that quality of governance is critical to tackling corruption and that only when this link is truly appreciated can inroads into corruption be made.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Preamble -- 2 Overview of banking system -- 3 Research objectives -- 4 The reform of China's banking sector -- 5 Conceptual tools to analyse corporate governance -- 6 Summary -- 2 Models of corporate governance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Models of corporate governance -- 3 Conclusion -- 3 Corporate governance in transitional economies -- 1 An overview of transitional economies -- 2 The Big Bang approach versus the Gradualist approach -- 3 Reasons for the different economic results -- 4 Corporate governance in Russia -- 5 Corporate governance in Central and Eastern European countries -- 6 Comparison of corporate governance in Russia and China -- 7 Conclusion -- 4 The Chinese perspective on corporate governance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The history of corporate governance in China -- 3 Chinese scholarship on corporate governance -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Chinese corporate governance problems encountered -- 1 Misconceptions about corporate governance -- 2 Problems of governance at the micro level -- 3 Problems of governance at the macro level -- 4 Results of lack of corporate governance -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 External determinants of corporate governance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The China Banking Regulatory Commission -- 3 The China Securities Regulatory Commission -- 4 Code of Corporate Governance -- 5 Business and informal networks -- 6 The role of the state and the Chinese Communist Party -- 7 Conclusion -- 7 Financial systems and economic growth -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measurement of the development of banking and finance -- 3 Bank based and market based financial systems -- 4 How financial systems impact on economic growth -- 5 Corporate governance and economic growth -- 6 Why aim for economic growth?.

A close analysis of the framework of existing governance and the existing jurisdictional arrangements for shipping and ports reveals that while policy-making is characterized by national considerations through flags, institutional representation at all jurisdictions and the inviolability of the state, the commercial, financial, legal and operational environment of the sector is almost wholly global. This governance mismatch means that in practice the maritime industry can avoid policies which it dislikes by trading nations off against one another, while enjoying the freedoms and benefits of a

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